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Cryptids are animals or other beings that cryptozoologists believe may exist somewhere in the wild, but whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by science. ...
The mysterious place after death Neutral Originally used to refer to the 'veil' that hides the innermost sanctuary of the Temple in Jerusalem. Sometimes refers to just a mysterious place. Big sleep [2] To die or be killed Euphemistic: Could be in reference to Raymond Chandler's 'The Big Sleep' Bite the dust [2] To die or be killed Informal
Name of person Image Date of death Details Sisera: 1200 or 1235 BC According to Judges 4–5, the commander of the Canaanite army for King Jabin of Hazor was killed in his sleep when the Kenite woman Jael stabbed him in the temple with a tent peg.
Antinous died of mysterious circumstances while riding a flotilla down the Nile river in October of 130. Theories put forth by scholars range from accidental drowning to human sacrifice to suicide.
Don’t read this before bed. The world is a crazy place with some pretty wild unexplained mysteries — like hundreds skeletons wrapped in tree roots, bleeding walls, haunted bunk beds and more.
The occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden". [1] In common usage, occult refers to "knowledge of the paranormal", as opposed to "knowledge of the measurable", [2] usually referred to as science.
The uncanny is the psychological experience of an event or thing that is unsettling in a way that feels oddly familiar, rather than simply mysterious. [1] This phenomenon is used to describe incidents where a familiar entity is encountered in a frightening, eerie, or taboo context.
[22] In his dialogues, he uses expressions that refer to cultic secrecy [23] (for example, ἀπορρήτων, aporrhéton, one of the Ancient Greek expressions referring to the prohibition of revealing a secret, in the context of mysteries [24]). In Theaetetus 152c, there is an example of this concealment strategy: